I've got!!

bones! I can feel them. My collar bone, my shoulders, and my HIPS!!! Aslo, I tried on a shirt I had bought for my sister last night. It fit. It is a medium. It Fit!!! I'm still afraid to shop in the non-plus side of the stores. Aime

Good for you Aime! I bet you never thought you'd be so happy to see/feel a bone on your body! Remember, you don't need to shop in plus sizes ANYMORE!!!!! Have fun in the misses dept!!! Congrats Allison

THAT IS SOOOOO WONDERFUL, AIME!!! A MEDIUM!!!! You must be so excited. And it is great that you are feeling bones. I remember when one of my cyber-friends had WLS a year and a half ago and she posted the first time she noticed she had collar bones. She had an itch on her chin and turned her head to rub it on her shoulder and hit something hard and realized it was her collar bone. She was so excited. I looked in the mirror last night to see if mine were pertruding yet. Not yet, but soon. Last night I was shopping with a girlfriend and there was an XL shirt at Wal-Mart that I LOVED. I showed it to her and she liked it and came to see what other colors they had, so I was going to get the XL to shrink in to. It said a size 16/18 and I am an 18/20 right now. Well, they didn't have one for her and she said that she wears a LG or XL in Wal-Mart sizes, so they run small. I told her to take the shirt. We argued over it (jokingly) and I said you get it because I probably won't fit into that size until Spring, but if I do, you HAVE to let me borrow it. She agreed. When we got back to my house, she tried on the shirt and it fit her like a glove. Now I KNOW I won't be getting in it anytime soon. She weighs like 155. She got some cute cords to go with it and looked AWESOME!!! I can't wait to be able to shop in the Misses section. I say GO FOR IT!!! Try on the Misses clothes. Have fun!!! Hugs, Tabby

Wonderful, Aime! I get the fear...I was terrified the first time I sat in a booth at the diner, the first time I went through the turnstile at the el train...I shopped in Modell's recently for some swimming goggles and they also had shorts on sale. They went up to size XXL; I started out at 5x-6x tops and 4x bottoms...I brought home some XL's and they fit But the whole time I was looking at the store, I felt like people were looking at me, wondering what I was doing, looking in a regular shop...I felt kind of like a fraud. It took me by surprise...I actually left without the shorts at first...went to The Avenue...I actually had to dreg up the nerve to go back to Modell's. Glad I did. It also occurred to me, while in The Avenue, that not that long ago, I hated going in there because their largest sizes (30-32) were getting to be too tight on me...and it's only a matter of months now and their sizes will all be too big for me I picked up a skirt there in 18-20 We'll adjust. There really are some big emotional adjustments included in all this, aren't there?! Lisa

YIPPEE Aime!!! Isn't it great when you can FEEL your bones?? I understand what you mean about shopping on the non-plus side of the store. I have trouble going there too....After shopping in the plus sizes for so long it just seems like "home". Guess now is when we need to tell ourselves we "can't go home again." Susan

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH So thats whats been holding us up all these years lmaooo Glad to hear you found your bones!!! AWESOME about the shirt. Thats just wonderful!!! *huggles* Felicia

Way to go Aime!!! I'm so excited for you!

for joy!!! We have to a little !!! I am also discovering bones that I have never felt before. My DH (darling husband) stated "The little things, like feeling our bones is something the skinny people take for granted." He stated that there is alot of things that they take for granted...of course he is 6-0 and weighs 183. One of my goals is to weigh less them him.. Go for the non-plus side of the stores...you deserve it...and you fit into you so I say GO GOT IT!!! Hugs,